Presbytery Adjoining Roman Catholic Church Of St Peter

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE LONDON ROAD 844-1/9/190 (North side) Presbytery adjoining Roman Catholic Church of St Peter

GV II

Roman Catholic presbytery. c1880. Squared stone in course, ashlar details, end-gabled slate roof with gabled dormers, brick stacks. Double-depth block adjoining the west side of the Roman Catholic Church of St Peter (qv). EXTERIOR: two storeys, attic, and cellar; an imposing asymmetrical front in a Gothic Revival domestic style; the front of four bays, on ground floor to left a recessed porch framed by nook shafts with moulded bases and capitals, and segmental-arched head with roll moulding; within the porch stone steps to door threshold, panelled door, to right of porch in the second and in the fourth bay a two-light window with segmental-arched head, upper transom, and trefoiled heads in the upper lights; in the third bay, between the two-light windows, a small, single light window; across the front, between the porch and the two-light windows, a continuous moulded, string course raised as a hoodmould above each arch; at intermediate level in the third bay, lighting the stairwell, a similar two-light window with cusped tracery in the head and hoodmould with carved stops; on the first floor, in each of the first, second and fourth bays, a two-light window with shallow segmental-arched head and arched lights, each light with a casement; the attic above the first, second and third bays lit by two dormers with coped gables and shaped kneelers, above the second bay the larger dormer with a two-light, mullioned window and the smaller dormer above the third bay with a single light window, all the lights with casements; at each end of roof coped gables with shaped kneelers crowned by gablets. INTERIOR: not inspected. A significant contribution to of the overall design with Church of St Peter (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8352718772